I’m amazed that anyone got paid to write “racist women worried their racist kids might have their racism pointed out when they do a racism” but hey, 2019 right?

Stop using womanhood as a shield for fuckshit. Women can absolutely create, uphold, perpetuate and nurture oppressive systems. Part of the reason it doesn’t get addressed the way it should is because women are seen as less capable. We are very capable of evil, cruelty and greed.

Seeing much political interest in the US Midterm Elections on my TL even from people who won’t normally discuss politics and I’m both delighted but also disappointed for Nigeria.

Politics here is at a very kindergarten level - without even comparing it to countries like the US.

Being in politics mostly for the past decade and associating with politicians, I still get shocked at how unpolitical it all is and how even the best of the best politicians are extremely terrible and inept at playing the game they profess.

(I should explain that last word...)

To profess something is to say it repeatedly or to pledge allegiance to something - and it’s the root word of another word: professional.

The contradiction of the Nigerian Politician is such that they profess to be Politicians but in truth, many of them are total Amateurs.

"Many years ago, the then president of The National Council of Churches warned that the danger of the great religious awakening taking place in our country, might become fanatical and be carried into our political and business life!

"Perhaps this was a fair assessment, that is, if you conflate #Christian#Zionism with religious awakening. Unfortunately, these "fanatical" #Evangelicals have 0 faith in the #Christian religion to which they give empty lip service--while paying homage to those who hate #Christ.

"For lack of faith in the actual #Bible, #Evangelicals make Scofield’ Notes, (Scofield! A drunkard and a con-man allied with the Satanist, Darby) --#Evangelicals have turned Scofield’s NOTES into a DIABOLICAL FORCE in our #national life.

Seeing some handwringing over Democrats' supposedly failed strategy on the tax bill, but not sure that it's warranted.

"Let's cut taxes for rich people" has been the endgame/organizing principle of the McConnell/Ryan GOP for years. They're willing to run through walls to do it.

What's more interesting is how *little* the McConnell/Ryan GOP care about cutting taxes for middle-class people—and increasingly even upper-middle-class people— either as a policy objective or as a way to make tax cuts for the rich more politically palatable.

The public is noticing this, by the way. The tax bill is quite unpopular, and people don't trust it to cut middle-class taxes despite the GOP's claims that it will.